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James D. LeCron papers, 1878-1959

Overview of the Collection

Creator
LeCron, James D.
Title
James D. LeCron papers
Dates
1878-1959 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.03 cubic feet (14 boxes)
Collection Number
01976
Summary
James D. LeCron (1885-1961) was the assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as the Administrator of the Surplus Marketing Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This collection contains his schoolwork, manuscripts he wrote during his journalist career, LeCron’s research into his family history and his genealogy, photographs, and glass and nitrate negatives. Also included are his personal diaries and diaries of some of his family members, and some of his personal correspondence.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

James D. LeCron (1885-1961) was the assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as the Administrator of the Surplus Marketing Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. James graduated from Northwestern University, and prior to working for the federal government, he was a newspaperman in Des Moines, Iowa. LeCron and his family briefly lived in Laramie, Wyoming between 1908 and 1912. He joined the Department of Agriculture in 1934, as the assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. LeCron was appointed as the Administrator of the Surplus Marketing Administration in 1941. He later resigned from his position in protest in 1943, accusing the State Department of blocking efforts to increase crops in Latin America.

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Content Description

This collection contains the papers of James D. LeCron. Included are his schoolwork, manuscripts he wrote during his journalist career, LeCron’s research into his family history and his genealogy, photographs, and glass and nitrate negatives of photographs. The negatives are mostly of his time and travel through Wyoming and the west. Also included are his personal diaries and diaries of some of his family members, and some of his personal correspondence.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Alternative Forms Available

Digital reproductions of select material from this collection are available at http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~4~4.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

Columbia Center for Oral History, Reminiscences of James D. LeCron, 1953.

Acquisition Information

The collection was received from Mrs. Eugene E. Jurs in 1966 and 1972.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by Brittany Heye in September of 2024.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Correspondence
    Dates: 1904-1951, undated
    Container: Box 1
  • Description: Correspondence - John J. LeCron
    Dates: 1878-1879, 1922
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence - Letters from Dade LeCron to John J. LeCron
    Dates: 1882-1900
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence - Letters from James D. LeCron to his parents (from age 8)
    Dates: 1892-1935
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence - Letters from John J. LeCron (and family) to James D. LeCron
    Dates: 1928-1932
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence - Letters from Simon LeCron (father of John J. LeCron) to his son
    Dates: 1891-1902
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence - To James D. LeCron from John J. LeCron (father) (transcript)
    Dates: 1934
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Correspondence - To or From James D. LeCron from famous individuals (Woodrow Wilson, William Bryan Jennings, and Nelson A. Rockefeller)
    Dates: 1904-1943
    Container: Box 11
  • Description: Diary, author unknown
    Dates: 1885
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Diary pages, author unknown
    Dates: 1930
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Diaries of Harriet Frazer
    Dates: 1935-1940
    Container: Box 3
  • Description: Diary - James D. LeCron
    Dates: 1901-1908
    Container: Box 4,6
  • Description: Travel Diary - James D. LeCron
    Dates: 1930-1931
    Container: Box 4
  • Description: Diaries (photocopies and/or transcripts)
    Dates: 1885-1936
    Container: Box 4-6
  • Description: Diaries - Harriet Frazer (transcripts)
    Dates: 1935-1942
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Diaries - Unidentified
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Address Before PTA Meeting, November 4, George Washington University
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Address Book
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Artifacts - Money
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Artifacts - Campaign Buttons (Presidential)- 9 in small container
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Family History - Frazer Family (photocopy - poor)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Family History - John James LeCron
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Family History - Simon LeCron
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Family History Notes
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 6
  • Description: Family History Research (leather file folders)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 12
  • Description: Genealogical Research
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: James D. LeCron Appointment as Assistant Administrator of the SMA press release
    Dates: September 24, 1941
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: James D. LeCron Calendar
    Dates: May 1916
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: James D. LeCron Classwork - Essay (photocopy)
    Dates: 1899
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: LeCron Family Tree
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7
  • Description: LeCron Family History Records
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7-8
  • Description: Manuscript - "The Brownies" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "The Clammer of the Gates" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: March 21, 1921
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "Facades and Facts or Myths by Which We Live" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: January 15, 1959
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "Let's Talk About Art" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: January 19, 1956
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - Miscellaneous handwritten works (photocopies)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "My Country, Right or Wrong" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "The Old Order Changeth" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: 1918
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "This Changing World" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: February 4, 1954
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - "Was Malthus Right?" by James D. LeCron
    Dates: October 23, 1952
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Manuscript - Memoir
    Dates: November 8, 1954
    Container: Box 8
  • Description: Miscellaneous
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Newspaper Clippings
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Northwestern University Commencement Book
    Dates: June 16, 1958
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Northwestern University Scrapbook
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Notes written by James S. Frazer
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Notebook of Mary F. (Dade) LeCron, wife of John J. LeCron (transcript)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Pencil Sketch - Photograph of James D. LeCron "To James LeCron from Lubonin P. Saponoff as a reminder of pleasant days at beautiful St. Paul, A.M."
    Dates: May 18, 1931
    Container: Box 13
  • Description: Photographs - family and family graveyard
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Photograph - James D. LeCron
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Poems and Short Stories (photocopies)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Poetry
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Schoolwork - James D. LeCron
    Dates: 1893-1907, undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Speech written by Harriet Frazer
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Shaving Straight Edge Razors (6) - gifted from Mrs. L. LeCron
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 9
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Band in Warsaw Decoration Day Parade
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Boat House, Evanston, Illinois
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Calf along Sheridan - Large Stop
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Camel Riders in Lincoln Park
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Charles O. Merica (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Chicago River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Court House at Warsaw, Indiana
    Dates: July 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Creek at Hubbard's - 7 miles north of Evanston
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Creeks in Ravine north of Evanston (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Deserted House 1/2 mile east of Miles Center, Indiana
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Evanston Fire Patrol returning from fire
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Ferris Wheel from the West
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Flowers (2)
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Fred, Harry, Frank and Tracy McCracken
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Harry McCracken
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Haunted House near Evanston
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Interior of Laramie Home
    Dates: 1910
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Ludlow's Creek
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - McCracken House
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Mrs. Hardy and Francis Hardy (2)
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Nickle plated Fire Engine at Evanston, Illinois
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Our House in Cheyenne, WY (2)
    Dates: 1912
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Pan American Express - Court of Fountains and Grounds
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Pan American Express - Ethnology Building
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Pan American Express - Government Building
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Pasture and Clouds at Grandma's House
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Peterson's Pony Gardens
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Picnickers eating on Mr. Leedy's Farm
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Picnickers in Grout near Yarnell's Landing - Eagle Lake
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Picnickers near Yarnell's Landing - Eagle Lake
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Practicing for Salute in Decoration Day Parade, Warsaw
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - R. Bowman along Chicago River
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Railroad train near Winona
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Revenue Cutter moral in Sham Battle off Lincoln Park
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Revenue Naval off Lincoln Park in Sham Battle
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Scene south from Grandma's House
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Set - up for my grammar school graduation
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - The woods of Chicago
    Dates: 1900
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Top of Medicine Bow peak
    Dates: 1908
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - unidentified (58)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Verne Cook on cow at Warsaw
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Glass Negatives - Wyoming (14)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 10
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Billy
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Black Rock Meadows
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Camp at Indian School
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Camp at mouth of Hoback Canyon
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Capital Building, Cheyenne, WY
    Dates: 1912
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Cheyey's House (5)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Down River from Falls
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Eaton's Dudes
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Emerald Pool
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Entering Fall River Basin
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Falls of Lewis River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Firehole River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Fish Creek Ranch (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - From top of Mt. Washburn
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - From Undine Falls
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Gibbon Falls (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Gibbon River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Grand Canyon and Falls
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Hoback River (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Jackson Lake
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - James D. LeCron and "trip with the Prices" (47)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - James D. LeCron in Hoback Canyon
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Jim and Jim
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Kepler Cascade in Firehole River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Lippy
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Mac Glashan on porch of his house
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Mac Glashan's House
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Major and Ross
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Moose Falls
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Moudy's Children (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Mouth of Hoback
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Mrs. J.M. Carey (7)
    Dates: November 1926
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Mt. Moran (2)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Old Camp near Thumb
    Dates: August 5, 1912
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Old Faithful
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Red Grade - Wind River below
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Ross and packs in Hoback Canyon
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Ross Cooking
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Ross in Hoback Canyon
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Ross Throwing Diamond
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - School at Dubois
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Seebohm's House (4)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Shoshone Lake
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Snake River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Tetons and Snake River
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Tower Creek
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Tower Falls
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Tugwater Pass (6)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - unidentified (13)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Yellowstone Falls
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Yellowstone Great Falls (7)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14
  • Description: Nitrate Negatives - Yellowstone Lake
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 14

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Subject Terms

  • Genealogy.
  • Journalists -- Iowa.

Corporate Names

  • United States. Department of Agriculture.
  • United States. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Marketing Service.

Family Names

  • Defrees family.
  • Frazer family.
  • LeCron family.
  • Ristine family.

Geographical Names

  • Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Diaries.
  • Genealogies.
  • Negatives.

Occupations

  • Journalists.
  • Public officers.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.
    • Frazer, Harriet.
    • LeCron, John J.
    • Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.
    • Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
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